The Immigration and Naturalization...

INS OFFICE MOVED.

February 15, 1989

HARLINGEN, TEXAS — INS OFFICE MOVED. The Immigration and Naturalization Service will stop processing amnesty applicants in a building that city officials closed last week because of health and safety violations. Armed with bolt cutters and a temporary restraining order, INS officials Monday returned to the former furniture store where the agency processes 2,000 political asylum applicants weekly. Officials in this small South Texas town have complained that refugees had left litter and human waste. INS District Director Omer G. Sewell said Tuesday the agency would no longer process asylum applications in Harlingen. A new office will open today at the INS Port Isabel Service Processing Center, a minimum-security facility where 425 aliens were detained Tuesday pending action such as deportation.